Feint studied at Sydney Art School from 1911 under Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner. He studied plate etching from 1922 to 1926. Woodblock-engraving from 1926 to 1928, with assistance from Thea Proctor in 1927.
And oil painting beginning in 1938, with Margaret Preston.
He worked in various media, but is noted for his bookplate designs. In 1916, Feint enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces, and was sent to France with the 15th Field Ambulance. Before being demobbed in 1919, he was granted three months leave to study at the Académie Julien in Paris.
In 1930 his bookplate designs were recognised by an exhibition at the Division of Fine Arts, Library of Congress, Washington United States (organised by the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers), and in 1933 were highlights of the first International Exhibition of held in Sydney. by Adrian Feint The Flower Paintings of Adrian Feint Ure Smith, 1948 Adrian Feint and His John Gartner, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne 1940 A Fine Lincolnshire G Caban, 1983 Art and Australia volume 9 no 2, 1971 Encyclopedia of Australian Art Alan McCulloch, Hutchinson, London 1968.
They are prized by collectors such as members of the American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers and the New Australian Bookplate Collectors Society. Feint was elected to the Society of Artists, and was a member of the Australian Painter-Etchers Society.
